My Comic Book Journey
as Mrs.G, inside and outside of the comic book
Hi, Mrs.G here! I wanted to give something to the people who signed up to mrsgcomics.com, so here is a free newsletter, in which I will cover few things about my comic book journey. I will try to keep it short.
How it started
As some of you probably know, just a year and half ago I started my Mrs.G Instagram account and in just a few months, I amassed a huge following of over 100K followers. It was both shocking and fun watching those numbers grow, and there is some satisfaction in getting 10ths of thousands of likes, and thousands of comments on each photo. There was no plan to it, in my head I was thinking - I will have this fun for few months and then close the account.
However, something else also happened - few artists asked me if they can make a drawing of me, and I was really flattered by this, and of course said yes. One of those was Patrick O’Donnell, and when I looked at the drawing of me that he did, and other comic book works that he did, I just felt a need to tell a story using my self as an OC (original character). See, I did have this idea to try myself as a writer for long time, but creating a comic - it seemed like an opportunity to create your own movie. There are so much possibilities for an interesting storytelling there! I knew nothing about comics, so I didn’t know how much work it does to create one!
That left the question of the topic of the comic books. It was obvious that the main characters should be modeled by myself, and for the comic books to have some level of erotica. After all my looks was big part of what my followers and the artists were interested in. But still that left a lot of possibilities - what should my character be? A super hero? A spy? At the end I decided that she could be just regular me! But married to an FBI agent. And then we can have episodic content, of Mrs.G helping her husband solve the cases. The idea seemed simple, but would open lot of possibilities.
Creating of the Comics
In meantime I started working on other comics in parallel with different artists, but this time let’s focus on my collaboration with Patrick. As I said I had no idea how much time or work creating a comic takes. So, let me tell you - it took us ALMOST A YEAR to finish the “Cartel’s Carnal Chemistry”! Part of it was that Patrick has a everyday job, so he couldn’t work 100% on the comic, but also the other part was that we wanted to make it perfect. Anyway, as you probably know, few days ago we finished it, and published it as part 3 of my Mrs.G comic book series on Amazon. We also did a cover based on a photo of me. Should attract some eyeballs!
So, yes it takes a lot of work, but for sure it is worth it, right? Surely with my 150+K followers on IG, my comic books would have lot of readers, and be financial success! Well, I was hoping there will be a lot of readers, and that there will be a financial success, but it turned out - no! Those over 150000 people that are following me and dutifully liking and commenting on my photos, they are not comic book guys, even when it is erotica, and when its main character is a person who they dutifully follow!
Of all these followers, I expect that only 100-200 people will actually buy this newest comic. In addition to that I expect that it will get maximum to around 500 buyers, both of the printed and the digital editions together. Which in total translates to let’s say $1000. Which of course is nothing. I easily spent multiple of that for paying the artists to create the comic, and even with the good prices they gave me.
So, no… financially it is not a success at all. But yet, I still do it, and I will do it! Why? Because I fell in love with the process of writing own stories, and then working with the artists! It was a honor to work with Patrick O’Donnell on Cartel’s Carnal Chemistry, and we are planning to collaborate again on a Mrs.G meets Sherlock Holmes comic book. (Mrs.G number 6).
That’s it from me for now, hope you found this newsletter little interesting, and let me finish with few pages from the newest Mrs.G comic…
I'm one of those 1,000 that grew up reading comics.
Wow Mrs. G, you are awesome!!!! Gorgeous lady xx